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Perry, who was co-hosting the show, offered wide-ranging commentary on a variety of economic and philosophical ideas.

“I think the human nature is to be free,” Perry said. “The human instinct is to be free. Free from overtaxation, free from overregulation, free from overlitigation. And until we free up the entrepreneurs in this country, we are going to struggle economically as a nation.”

But, he added, “there will be pockets around the country where freedom still matters,” citing Texas.

He said the business-friendly climate in his state has offered entrepreneurs confidence to invest, and said Washington should give similar assurances.

“You must send the message to those that are going to create the jobs and create the wealth in the future, and that’s businessmen and women, that there’s stability and predictability on all of these issues, on taxes, on the regulatory policy and they don’t see that,” Perry said. ” They are scared to death about what Washington’s going to do next. And the reason Texas is as stable, the reason people are moving to Texas in record numbers, is because we have created that stability.”

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He keeps repeating the same ole GOP crappola - right from the Koch brothers laundry list -- less regulation - because it's easier to dump crap into the nearest stream than to be environmentally responsible.

“I think the human nature is to be free,” Perry said. “The human instinct is to be free. Free from overtaxation, free from overregulation, free from overlitigation. And until we free up the entrepreneurs in this country, we are going to struggle economically as a nation."

Perry is right. Unfortunately, the instinct and practice of Obama and the leftists is control, overtaxation, overregulation, overlitigation, and economic struggle for all. The Obamacare taxes and regulations are just kicking in. All Obama's executive orders, and bad polciy from his first term continues to drag us down. Obama continues to spend at RECORD LEVELS. OBAMA RAISED SPENDING 20 PERCENT SINCE HE ENTERED OFFICE!!! YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR THAT!!! The "rich" can't even cover a fraction of Obama's increases. Obama has NO firm line item budget cuts on the table whatsoever. Obama is spending like there is no tomorrow. Look what he does with White House Christmas trees when many of us cannot afford a SINGLE tree: "As Americans face a fiscal cliff, the Obamas make do with 54 Christmas trees

Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images (2011)

Amazing how a reelection can reshape an incumbent's thinking about many things. Now safely ensconced in the White House for 49 more months, the Obamas have decorated the place with 54 Christmas trees this year.

Even allowing for the usual Washington excesses with taxpayer money, that's a whole grove of Christmas trees.

"We have 54 trees in the White House," an excited Michelle Obama proudly told visitors the other day. "54! That’s a lot of trees."

In fact, the Obamas' 54 trees this year are almost 50% more Christmas trees than last year. "

You get what you vote for: high fuel and grocery prices, more money printing, devalued dollar, no domestic oil and gas expansion , more reliance on Middle East oil and more military and economic intervention in the Middle East when we cannot afford to pay our own bills, no Canadian pipeline and no jobs. The Government are our new masters. They get record numbers of Christmas trees, $4 MILLION trips to Hawaii and drive around in SUVs when we get more taxes, regulations and high fuel prices for our subcompact cars.

Just read history. Look at Cuba, USSR, Greece, Spain. Is that what hard working citizens want?

Freedom from paying a living wage, freedom from providing medical insurance, freedom from safety regulations, freedom to hire illegals to keep their profit margins up, freedom to pollute air and water for profits, freedom to avoid taxes...yep, y'all love your freedom.

Freedom from paying a living wage, freedom from providing medical insurance, freedom from safety regulations, freedom to hire illegals to keep their profit margins up, freedom to pollute air and water for profits, freedom to avoid taxes...yep, y'all love your freedom.

Perry panders Pseudo Patriotism and God better than a pimp panders hookers. Perry talks out of his jock strap aka vapid jock rot. He is a West Texas cracker head racist fraud. This parasitic sycophant to Billionair¬e Oil Barons, Simmons, Pickens, Kochs, etc. reeks with hypocrisy, duplicity and is a political crook. People listen and believe him due to Texas the cracker head stupidity and racism that permeates Texas aka the most racist state in the US and being dummied down by the sycophant ingratiating Texas media with their half-truth spin promoting themselves as a standard bearer of truth. Perry even sold off the Texas highways to a Spanish conglomerate who build tolls road that charge $6 one way to go 2 miles. The entire state is a "cesspool of corruption¬" and "criminal enterprise with "sweetheart deals" handed out by Perry as the CEO. Big D even killed a President. “You can't quarantine a person like Oswald in time and place “ per the Warren Commission. The seeds of racial hate in Dig D grow exponentially. How many times have you seen Obama in this “hate filled” racist state since the election? JFK came only once and what happened then. Perry and these “cracker head” Texas Billionaires, "dirt burgers" and “west texas closet racists” want to send a Jesus freak who caters to bible freaks and “white trailer park trash” to DC. The Texas media conducts no investigation of the fraud and gerrymandering overseen by Perry. You got a 38 % white minority per the 2010 census in the state and these cracker heads in Austin have gerrymandered the state where 72% of the congressional delegation is Republican and now they want the 4 additional Congressional seats to be Republican. VP material ???? Perry doesn't have the brains to run a dog kennel.

Texas is a great state to abuse workers. My girlfriend works 80 hours a week, but only gets paid for 40.

This is perfectly legal in a modern slave - I mean right to be exploited - I mean right to work - state like Texas.

Best of all, Texas schools rank 48th out of 50 in the country, so your children will likely receive a poor education and your neighbors are the kind of ignorant fools that vote against their own interest year after year.

Texas • Ranks #1 in population living below the poverty line ( 17.2 % ) • Ranks #1 with Mississippi with those making below the Federal minimum wage. • Ranks #1 in the lowest education funding • Has a 28 billion dollar deficit that on a per capita basis is higher than California. • Ranks #1 in the smallest amount of payments paid to the unemployed • Ranks #1 in illiteracy • Ranks #1 in toll roads that are operated by foreign companies at the expense of its citizens • Ranks # 1 (26.5%) who lack health insurance • Ranks # 1 (20.3%) of children who lack health insurance • Ranks # 1 in the smallest $ spent on Medicaid for the poor and children • Ranks #1 with the highest real estate taxes per $1,000 value of a home in the United States • Ranks #1 in the lowest high school graduation rate • Ranks #1 with the highest interest rates “pay day” companies can charge • Ranks #1 with the highest overall pollution rate • Ranks #1 in toxic waste, carbon footprint, CO2 emissions, greenhouse & hazardous waste dispersed due to more oil refineries, chemical plants and coal-fired power plants than any state in USA • Ranks #1 in the highest incarceration rate and longest sentences in the world. • Ranks #1 in adults ( 1 of 22 or 780,000 ) under correctional control. • Ranks # 1 on the poorest gun regulations in the US and highest per capita gun murder rates in the US • Ranks # 1 in the highest per capita executions in the world • Ranks # 1 in the highest per capita executions in the world • Ranks 50th ( dead last ) in $ spent on its citizens • Ranks 50th ( dead last ) in $ providing prenatal care to expectant mothers • Ranks 50th ( dead last ) in Teacher Pay • Where 500,000 children are uninsured but where 50% are eligible for Medicaid or Scrip but Texas has inadequate staffing so they don’t have to pay • Ranks # 1 in the # of food insecure children. Every 5th child in Texas is in a food insecure household. Every 4th child in Dallas county lives in poverty and every 3rd child in the city of Dallas lives in poverty. • Ranks # 2 with the highest number of objections filed under the Voting Rights Act, surpassed only by Mississippi • Ranks 2nd to Mississippi in food insecurity where 1.4 million Texas households face imminent hunger • Ranks 2nd ( the 2nd lowest ) in Medicaid $ given to nursing homes • Ranks 2nd highest in teen births • Ranks #2 with the highest home insurance rates • Ranks #2 with the highest sales tax • Ranks 49th in $ funded for the mentally ill • Has environmental record in the United States • Where 10% of the population (2.3 million) have outstanding warrants. • Where Perry attempted forced vaccinations of adolescent girls for HPV (an unproven vaccine), yet vetoed a bill for texting while driving (second in fatalities only to drunk driving) because he did not want to "micromanage Texans. And finally, Texas congressional delegation is 68% Republican ( 26 out of 36 seats ) yet the State is run by a 38% white minority which is indicative of the “cesspool of corruption” in Austin ( the capital ).

Yup, for the people doing well in Texas, they do real well. What about all the "Left Behinds"? The people living in shabby housing, with lousy pay, poor education and few prospects for themselves or their children. I'm from Mass, liberal as can be, with one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation, and some of the best schools and hospitals in the world. We have the second highest per capita incomes of any state in the nation--everyone here makes on average 30% more than people in Texas. And we take care of our poor and elderly--everyone has insurance here. Texas is like a robber baron's dream--and screw the people who are left behind.